Chapter Seventy-Three: The End of the Guliang Sect

Three days later, the decree of the Son of Heaven and the writings of the Prime Minister's Mansion spread from Chang'an to all directions, and for a time, local officials began to check the Guliang faction in the main cities of the Han Dynasty.

The Tianxia Township School, under the leadership of the three elders, immediately burned down the Gu Liang Chuan in the treasury, condemned it as a heresy, and did not allow anyone to study it, and the books of the Gu Liang faction turned into wisps of green smoke in the pile of flames.

In Qilu, since knowing that the Son of Heaven ordered the deposition of Gu Liang, Qilu, the former base camp of Gu Liang, jumped for a while, and all the scholars, nobles, and officials associated with Gu Liang issued statements one after another, and the content of their releases was roughly the same, that is, they and Gu Liang completely put aside their relationship.

However, He Jian, the assassin of Qingzhou, still did not intend to let them go, as a disciple of the Legalists, He Jian, who usually looked down on the landlords and doctors of the Guliang faction the most, bullied men and women all day long, took advantage of the tricks, and was full of hypocrites of benevolence and morality, because He Jian knew that they were extremely dirty and dirty.

This Qingzhou assassin He Jian, who has just been in office for a year, has always wanted to make a move, but because the Qingzhou nobles have not succeeded in covering each other, He Jian has not seized any opportunity since this year, and today the Son of Heaven directly designated Gu Liang as a heresy, He Jian also happened to take this opportunity to directly include the landlord Haoqiang, who has the deepest relationship with the Gu Liang faction, directly on the migration list, and after the end of the great court meeting, he immediately took him to Guanzhong to enrich the Pingling of the first emperor.

But when He Jian arrived at the local manor, he was shocked by the scene in front of him, as a Legalist scholar, He Jian was after experiencing desperate struggle, only to ascend to the position of Qingzhou Thorn History, He Jian thought that he was used to seeing the darkness of the place and the ugliness of the world.

But here, in the manor among these Guliang Sect students, he found that he was still too naïve!

He Jian saw a large number of yellow-faced and thin-skinned peasants, shackled in the fields, and even some of them were naked, where there was no difference between humans and animals, when He Jian ordered people to remove the shackles, take clothes and food, and let the serfs share the food, and the serfs did not move, just knelt quietly in place, until the arrested steward spoke, everyone rushed up, gulping and devouring the food.

Seeing this scene, He Jian burst into tears and was ashamed, because in Guanzhong, there are also slaves, domestic servants, and sons-in-law who are sold and abandoned by their own families, and the government will only inquire appropriately, but they can ensure the minimum living conditions.

It is okay to beat and scold the serfs in Guanzhong, but it is absolutely not allowed to work to drive the serfs to work as they are now, for fear that they will escape, and it is even more impossible to let them be clothed with hair, yellow faces, thin muscles, and uncovered clothes.

When He Jian was young, he once heard that in Qilu, an adult male was sold for 13,000 yuan, He Jian always thought it was a joke, because a cow in his hometown of Guanzhong would be sold for thousands of dollars, let alone a big living person?

In the Han Dynasty, aristocratic officials, scholars, doctors, and slaves are allowed to be slaves, but they are restricted by the title and the five-fold oral calculation of slaves, and large families generally buy slaves as confidants and retainers, and most of them are enough to buy slaves because the Han nobles have to bring their own armor, and the soldiers fight for the Son of Heaven to fight the world, and the treatment is not very good, at least there is no worry about food and clothing, and there are even many heroes like Wei Qing and Guan Bao.

But in Linzi, it really opened He Jian's eyes, the crows in the world are not ordinary black, they are black one by one.

Since the Warring States Period, slavery began to fall apart, to the Han Dynasty, although there are still remnants, but the overall impact is not large, the composition of the world is still based on homesteaders, but in Linzi City, He Jian thought that he had returned to the Xia Dynasty, Shangchao, Zhou Dynasty These slavery heyday, He Jian hacked the manor owner in front of him to death with a knife, and immediately led the people and horses to gather the county soldiers and search the manors door to door.

The entire Linzi city was frightened instantly, the center of the southeast region of Linzi, except for the intervention of a large army when Emperor Gao quelled the rebellion, the Han family was mainly appeased by Qilu from beginning to end, who knows how He Jian came when Guliang fell.

For a while, the whole Linzi chickens and dogs jumped, He Jian led people to investigate one manor after another, and immediately arrested the head of the family when he found the problem.

Even the descendants of Kong Qiu, Yan Hui, and Meng Ke knew more about the law and broke the law, and let go of usury, He Jian arrested them all, and reported the local situation to Chang'an

He Jian's own authority can deal with it, he will deal with it immediately, and the guilty nobles are directly taken to Chang'an, and the backbone of the Guliang faction is also arrested and sent to Chang'an Tingwei, at the same time, a large number of manors, workshops, and land are also confiscated, He Jian is all state-owned for sale, and the subordinate officials of the salt and iron yamen sent by Chang'an Dasi Nong immediately follow up to buy at a low price, and begin to dry salt in Qilu.

Although the efficiency of drying salt is not as good as boiling salt, and the quality is different, it is impossible to stand the large output of dried salt and the low investment!

The amount of salt produced in a month in one acre of sea salt field is comparable to that of hundreds of workers working day and night without intermittent boiling.

As for the cost, it is close to zero, and the sea water does not need money, and under the repeated actions of the Dasi Nong Salt and Iron Yamen, the southeast region centered on Linzi finally eats cheap salt.

The rest of the land, He Jian also carefully considered, set the official land for the people, for a time the number of displaced people in Qidi greatly reduced, a large number of displaced people to Qingzhou at all levels of government to apply for fertile land for cultivation.

In Chang'an Taixue, Dr. Gu Liang and many teachers were forced to drink cups of poisoned wine under the gaze of the imperial historian and the subordinate officials of Tingwei. And the torturer, the servant Yushi confiscated a large number of land deed IOUs in their homes, as well as evidence of smuggling forbidden goods and weapons from the Xiongnu.

Under the instruction of the Son of Heaven, Tingwei Bingji read out the charges of the Guliang faction in Dongshi, announced the crimes of Zhang Yuan and others in Yanmen County, and granted the 350,000 mu of land cleared out plus a small part of the public land allocated by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the entire Guanzhong was completely boiling, and it has been nearly 50 years since the Xiaowu Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne.

According to the decree issued by Emperor Gao, all landless peasants can apply to the government and can obtain the corresponding title of land, plus a large number of people in Guanzhong moved out of Hexi a while ago, the population pressure was eased, and this time the land grant also eased the living burden of the people, and the foundation of the Han Dynasty was stabilized by a family of five to cultivate hundreds of fields.

It is foreseeable that the financial revenue of the Han family will increase greatly this year, and the average annual income of the Han family is nearly 550,000 yuan, but every year the financial income will be divided into three parts, one for the mausoleum, one for the army, and one for the civil administration, and 250,000 to 300,000 yuan of the 550,000 yuan will go to the Shaofu.

The treasury can only get 40% of the money, and these money can only reach the basic operation of the government, once a natural disaster occurs, the prime minister must also let the Son of Heaven take money from the Shaofu to support, but this year the problem of the shortage of funds in the prime minister's house can be greatly improved, the Han vassal tribes in Hexi rebelled, and the general Zhang Anshi of the chariot cavalry wiped them out, so the huge number of cattle and sheep of the eight surnames of Wuhuan, the money and wealth are all included in the wallet of the Han government, and the property of the descendants of the Guliang faction is confiscated. It has also contributed a lot of money to the central government, so the biggest investment this year is the development of Hexi, because Wuhuan and Guliang have reached a break.

Let the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion where Huo Guang is located more confident to complete the work of the southeastern refugees and the construction of the southern Cao Yun.

Huo Shan was even more agile in his actions, he went to the Imperial History Yamen, gathered about fifty people to hold the book of the Imperial History, and changed the old Inner History Yamen next to the Gaozu Temple into Guanlu University, and all the officials in Chang'an City who studied under Gu Liang were stuffed into the university and asked them to change their courts.

The officials who studied under Gu Liang, after getting the opportunity to be reborn, immediately left Gu Liang behind, and originally studied under Gu Liang, not because their ideals were close to Gu Liang, but because they had a better chance to be officials in Gu Liang.

In front of his own career, what respect for the teacher, what is passed on from generation to generation is empty talk, Wu Qi is the main ruler of the Chu State, and even killed his wife, just to prosper his career, with such an example, of course, everyone has a learning, according to the gourd to draw a scoop.

For a time, in Guanlu University, the former Guliang students wore the Legalist crown robe, and declared that they were Legalist scholars, and the Legalists accepted all the orders, and sent a large number of personnel to teach, in this series of actions, the Legalists and the re-education officials reached a consensus, everyone took what they needed, and slowly the Legalists absorbed the essence of Guliang and also had the appearance of Zhongxing.

Seeing this, Huang Lao immediately asked to see Huo Shan and wanted the elites of his sect to enter Guanlu University to teach or study, Huang Ye, the head of Huang Lao's family, told Huo Shan the demands of Huang Lao's various factions, Huo Shan did not agree privately but reported to the Son of Heaven, Liu Xun also agreed to Huang Lao's request after knowing it, and asked Dasi Nong to summon the outstanding agricultural officials and send them to Guanlu University to teach, and at the same time let the Prime Minister's Mansion select Litian to be sent to Guanlu University to study, and immediately after passing the examination, he was awarded an official position to subsidize the official vacancy.

After Huo Shan got the approval of the Son of Heaven, he immediately replied to Huang Ye, and Huang Ye, who received the reply, immediately sent a message to Huang Lao in the world, asking them to send the elite disciples of the sect to Chang'an as soon as possible, and enter Guanlu University together to prepare to occupy this vital height.

In this way, in the tearing and decomposition of forces in all aspects, the Gu Liang faction gradually became uncared for, and after a few years, no one will remember Gu Liang's doctrine, the elite was lost, the books were destroyed, and Gu Liang embarked on the road of Zhu Yang, and it will die out like Zhu Yang, becoming history.